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Win_Strain was a program developed from the strain program of Ohashi, previously
published in the book Comparative Crystal Chemistry by Hazen and Finger. It calculates the
strain between two sets of unit-cell parameters. This is essential
for interpreting changes in unit-cell parameters with changes in
temperature, pressure or composition, or for calculating the
components of the spontaneous strain arising from a phase transition. When the
components of the strain tensor are normalised by the temperature or pressure change,
the thermal expansion and compressibility tensors are obtained.
The 2019 release of EosFit-7c includes calculations of strain,
compressibility and expansion tensors,
with all of the options that were included in the Win-strain program for axial conventions and
strain types. For crystals of monoclinic or triclinic symmetry
the orientation of the principal axes of strain with respect to both the Cartesian axial system and
the crystallographic axes is also calculated.
The strain utility in EosFit-7c has improved algorithms to solve the Eigenvalue problems
and is therefore more robust than Win-strain when Eigenvalues of the strain are accidentally equal
in triclinic and monoclinic systems.
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